H.I.V. Futures 3: Positive Australians on Services, Health and Well-Being

It is now four years since the original HIV Futures report was released and we had for the first time a comprehensive picture of the complexity and diversity of the lives of HIV positive Australians. This survey, HIV Futures 3: Positive Australians on Services, Health and Well-Being, comes at a time when the complexities of viral resistance have begun to dominate the clinical discourse, when the management of HIV increasingly involves fraught decisions around interruptions to treatment and balancing the effects of treatments against quality of life, at a time when management of HIV identity plays a critical role in negotiating the workplace and the health system, at a time when AIDS appears to have dropped off the agenda and yet can dominate the lives of those whom it affects.

The Living with HIV Program
at The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
La Trobe University

The Living with HIV Program is a part of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University. ARCSHS is funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation to undertake a program of social research into social, psychological and cultural aspects of human sexuality and sexual health. The Living with HIV Program at ARCSHS is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing as a collaborating centre to the National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales.